Heccrdu of Been. 4().*J 



sli^litly bent inwarJs below (inuctically as in AnJrena ; in 

 Stenotritus efegans it is lon^ and very oblique). 



(J . — Apicil joint of'antenuce produced and hooked. 



Lengtii about 17 mm. 



Face na>T()\v, the eyes lar^e ; face up to antenuoe cream- 

 colour, except a black stripe down each side of supraclypcal 

 area; thorax with less yellow, that on scutelluin reduced to a 

 narrow band on bind margin, and no yellow on metatborax ; 

 anterior and middle legs yidlow ; bind trocbanters mainly 

 yellow, pointed beliin I ; hind femora very <jre dhj swollen, 

 mostly black above and yellow beneatli, tbe black nearly 

 dividing tbe yellow by a process on outer side ; hind tibice 

 more or less flattened, with a hump on middle of inner side, 

 outer surface yellow, witb a black mark in middle and apical 

 outer corner black, inner side with about basal tvvo-tiftlis 

 yellow ; hind tarsi excavated as though a large piece had been 

 bitten out; abdomen brown-black, with six bright yellow 

 bands, narrowed (tbe first interrupted) in middle ; venter 

 largely pale yellow, with six conspicuous black spots. 



Hub. Damara Land, 2 ? , 1 <^ in British Museum, from 

 F. Smith's collection. 



One of the females (with an anterior leg of some other bee 

 plued on in place of tbe proper member) lias stood for years 

 in tbe Museum collection, labelled by Bingham as a new 

 species of Megacilissa from tlie Himalayas. I cannot adopt 

 Bingham's manuscript specific name, as it has reference to 

 tbe erroneous locality-label, and has, moreover, been used by 

 Nurse for a different Xomia. Evidently Col. Bingham came 

 to doubt the Asiatic locality, as the insect is not described in 

 iiis work on Indian bees. 



Xylocopa varians ecuadorica, subsp. n. 



$ . — Length about 16^ mm., expanse about 28 mm. 



Head dark blue, with black hair mixed with pale, all 

 black on vertex, mostly pale on cheeks; labrum with orange 

 hair; clypeus with large punctures and a smooth line ; 

 thorax blue-green, more steel-blue on disc, its hair black, 

 more or less mixed with pale; pleura dark blue. Abdomen 

 dark yellowish green, with short sparse [)ale golden hairs; 

 last segment and sides of penultimate with black hair, 

 extreme apex with orange. Anterior legs with black hair, 

 middle with hair on outer side of basitarsus pale yellowish ; 

 hind legs with pale yellowish hair on outer side of basi- 

 tarsus and on apical half of tibia; first r. n. reaching base of 

 third s.m. 



